NV Emilio Hidalgo Amontillado Especial Viejo "El Tresillo 1874"

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 94.7 points

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  5/2/2020 - NickA Likes this wine: 93 Points

  We managed to get takeaway from one of our favourite local tapas restaurants, so logical to open our only (!) bottle of Sherry. Turbo levels of rancio here - wood polish on the nose, cigar box, loads of nutty, fishy flavour on the palate, good acidity and the incredibly long finish. Great wine but docked a point or two because I find a dissonnance between the intensity of the flavour and the high alcohol on the one hand, and the perceived lightness of body and bone dryness on the other, which makes it a tricky food match - it's not fresh and saline enough for fish, nor rich enough for meat.

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  11/13/2018 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Deeply colored, off dry, salty, and nutty. Not special.

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  5/19/2018 - premiercru1973 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Such a stunner! Complexity, typicity and balanced harmony. Wow!

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  4/11/2018 - Tony Ling Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Served in Spiegelau tasting glass: Medium amber colour to the eyes. Knockout nose of matured honey-glazed apricots and raisins, chamomile, assorted roasted nuts like almonds and soy sauce like savoury notes. Fully mature and very broad and complex nose indeed.
  
  On the palate fresh acidity and minerality, well integrated alcohol (you will hardly notice the 20% vol). Long and persistent finish. Flavours largely consistent with the nose.
  
  A special treat. 93-94 points.

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  6/27/2016 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points

  During a tasting dinner. Nose of tobacco, earth, autumn leaves. Intense and alcoholic on the palate. I don’t like dry Sherry so much but the complexity was undeniable here. 94+

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